still not the narwhale

This is a neat one I saw while browsing kids animal alphabet pictures. It’s a Nutria, but it’s also called a Coypu. Pretty interesting history over on wikipedia, which is also where I got this picture:

[picture credit to Norbert Nagel, via wikipedia]

As far as I can tell, the Nutria is basically a capybara-beaver-rat combo. Kinda cute? But probably not something I’d want to stumble into while meandering down a riverside.

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